8 THE JERSEY, ALDERNEY AND GUERNSEY COW. 



Cow thrivinor under circumstances that would be fittine 

 for any other cow kept for the same purpose — viz., 

 milkinof and breedinof. 



The Channel Islands Cow will be found invaluable 

 for private family use, from its docility, easy pasturage 

 and small consumption, in comparison with the peculiar 

 richness of its milk, the average in a dairy of forty 

 cows, under such management as is hereafter set forth, 

 having been ten pounds of butter from each cow per 

 week ; whereas in other dairies not more than from six 

 to seven pounds is producible from the ordinary milch 

 cow — where alone quantity of milk has been desired^ — 

 which is not the main object in a private family. 



We have, therefore, in the animal under consideration 

 the triple advantage, as before stated, of a symmetry 

 of form which renders it an ornament to the gentleman's 

 lawn and paddock ; a docility which makes it quiet un- 

 der the tether and in the hands of the milker, whether 

 male or female ; and a richness of production which not 

 only fills the dairy with butter, but that of a firmness 

 which it retains in the heat of the summer and a rich- 

 ness through the cold of winter, when the butter of the 

 ordinary cow is barely marketable. 



The prejudice against the Jersey which has existed 

 amongst dairy farmers, whose object is only profit, by 

 whatever legitimate means obtainable, is also now fast 

 wearing away, there being scarcely one such in England 

 who does not have a certain proportion of these cattle 

 among his stock ; experience having proved that the 



